Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

My guest this week is Suzanne Owen, Reader at Leeds Trinity University, who used to be our External Examiner for Religious Studies at Kent. Suzanne talks about how she is always excited to see what other institutions are doing and we learn about how walking is a counterpoint to her day.  We learn about Suzanne’s creative writing work and whether she can ever publish it. We talk about the different skills involved and how it can be like being a detective. Suzanne was, back in the 1980s, a DJ in San Francisco. She was studying radio technology at the time and played punk and new wave. She has researched indigenous traditions and was once a tutor in Canadian Studies. Suzanne’s first post in Leeds Trinity was in World Religions and she talks about why she is critical of the category. When she was 5 years old she had an encounter with a wolf and no one knew she was missing or seemed to care, and Suzanne reflects on how this turned her into an outsider and a non-conformist, even an anarchist. She joined t